TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

Written:Written on August 9, 1919Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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TrotskyCopy to Rakovsky

ThePolitical Bureau of the Central Committee requests
that the Central Committee’s directive be communicated
to all responsible workers: to hold out to the last,
defending Odessa and Kiev, the communications between them
and their communications with us to the last drop of blood.
This is a question of the fate of the whole revolution.
Remember that our help is not far off.

Forthe Political Bureau of the Central Committee,Lenin